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The 430 Nights of Ezekiel… Ezekiel 4:1-8

BEWARE THE LAMB. The 430 Nights of Ezekiel… Ezekiel 4:1-8. Israel: God’s Time Piece. Babylon. Persia. Greece. Rome. Revived Rome. Peace. Daniel 2:31-45; 7:1-28; 8:1-27. The Times of the Gentiles Luke 21:24. Rapture of the Church. Ascension. Second Coming Of Jesus Christ. Palm

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The 430 Nights of Ezekiel… Ezekiel 4:1-8

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  1. BEWARE THE LAMB The 430 Nights of Ezekiel…Ezekiel 4:1-8

  2. Israel: God’s Time Piece Babylon Persia Greece Rome Revived Rome Peace Daniel 2:31-45; 7:1-28; 8:1-27 The Times of the Gentiles Luke 21:24 Rapture of the Church Ascension Second Coming Of Jesus Christ Palm Sabbath Holy Spirit poured out 483 Years 7 Years Fullness of the Gentiles Romans 11:25 69 of Daniel’s 70 Sevens Daniel 9:24-37 Daniel’s 70th 7 Daniel 9:24-37 20 Centuries Judah Exile Recovery Oppression Occupation Scattered Restored Jacob’s Trouble Peace Church Age The Church: A mystery hidden in Old Testament Millennium 63 BC 539 BC 332 BC Times of the Gentiles Ends Dan 2:34-35, 44-45 Jer 25:11 537 BC 518 BC 70-130 AD 14 May 1948 7 Jun 1967 2,520 years360 70 years Servitude of the Nation > Ezek 4:1-8; 2 Chr 36:21; Lev 26:34-35; Lev 26:18, 21, 34, 28 70 years > Battle of Carchemesh 606 BC Desolations of Jerusalem Ps 83 Ezek 40  2,520 years360 Ezek 38-39 Ezek 36-37 587 BC 3rd Siege of Nebuchadnezzar

  3. Isa 28:13 (Isa 28:10) But the word of the LORD was unto them • precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; • that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. KJV • Hos 12:10 I have also spoken by the prophets, • and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, • by the ministry of the prophets. KJV • FUTURIST:MOST OF THE EVENTS ARE YET TO HAPPEN, • SEQUENTIAL:REVELATION WAS GIVEN IN HISTORICAL TIME ORDER • PREMILLENNIAL: THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST HAPPENS BEFORE THE LITERAL MILLENIUM BEGINS • PRETRIBULATIONAL:THE RAPTURE OCCURS PRIOR TO THE GREAT TRIBULATION • DISPENSATIONAL:GOD USES DIFFERENT GROUPS AND PEOPLE TO REPRESENT AND REVEAL HIMSELF TO MANKIND AT DIFFERENT TIMES • SERIOUSLY:WHAT GOD SAYS, HE MEANS, WHAT HE PROMISED, HE WILL DO • Take God’s Word literally where the literal sense makes sense - but also recognize the literal may also be symbolic… • What is clearly symbolic – take seriously but search out the symbolism • If God uses a symbol, He explains it in His Word – let the Bible interpret the Bible • ABOMINATION THAT CAUSES DESOLATION = MID-POINT OF TRIBULATION • ABOMINATION THAT CAUSES DESOTATIOIN -- ‘MAN OF SIN’,INDWELT BY SATAN’ PRCLAIMS HIMSELF TO BE GOD – PROFANES THE JERUSALME TEMPLE . • TWO WITNESSES IN JERUSALEM AFTER TESTIFYING FOR 1,260 DAYS ARE KILLED. AFTER 3.5 DAYS THEY ARE RAISED AGAIN AND CALLED UP INTO HEAVEN. (ELIJAH AND MOSES ?? - PERFORMED SAME ‘MIRACLES’ DURING LIFETIME - BOTH WERE SEEN AT MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION ‘BRIEFING’ • FAITHFUL REMNANT IN JERUSALEM (ISRAEL) TOLD TO FLEE TO EDOM / MOAB (MODERN JORDAN WHICH FOR SOME REASON IS NOT IN THE CONTROL OF OR INFLUENCED BY THE ‘MAN OF SIN’ • ‘WRATH OF GOD = LATER PART OF DANIEL’S 70TH WEEK - 3.5 YEAR / 42 MONTHS / 1,260 DAYS • THE GREAT TRIBULATION • 7TH TRUMPET – EARTHQUAKE -- 7,000 DIE IN JERUSALEM - PEOPLE RUN TO THE MOUNTAINS • VIAL (BOWL) JUDGMENTS • 1ST VIAL – BOILS -- MALIGNANT SORES AFFECT THOSE WITH MARK OF THE BEAST • 2ND VIAL - SEA OF BLOOD -- EVERYTHING IN THE OCEAN DIES • 3RD VIAL - RIVERS OF BLOOD -- RIVERS AND SPRINGS TURN TO BLOOD • 4TH VIAL - OPPRESSIVE HEAT -- SUN SCORCHES ALL MANKIND • 5TH VIAL – DARKNESS -- EARTH IN TOTAL DARKNESS / DARKNESS THAT IS ‘FELT’ (I.E. EGYPT) • 6TH VIAL - EUPHRATES DRIES UP -- NATIONS ARMIES MARCH ON ISRAEL • 7TH VIAL – HAIL -- CITIES CRUMBLE • AT SOME POINT DURING DANIEL’S 70TH WEEK - LIKELY AT THE OR NEAR THE MIDPOINT – ISRAEL IS PURGED OF IT’S UNBELEIF AND REPENTS - RETURNS TO GOD - RECOGNIZES JESUS AS THE MESSIAH AND CALLS FOR HIS HELP AND RETURN • ARMAGEDDON • KINGS OF THE SOUTH MOVE ON ISRAEL, KINGS OF THE NORTH AND EAST AND “ANTI-CHRIST’S” ARMIES RESPOND AND MARCH ON THE NOW FAITHFUL ISRAEL TO ELIMINATE ANY LAST ELEMENT OF GOD’S FAITHFUL FROM THE EARTH • SECOND COMING OF JESUS Rev 19-20 • SEEING CHRIST RETURNING THESE ARMIES UNITE TO MAKE WAR WITH GOD • JESUS RETURNS TO MAKE WAR ON THE ‘UNFAITHFUL’ PUTTING DOWN ALL OPPOSITION • SAINTS / BRIDE RETURN WITH HIM BUT DO NOT MAKE WAR THEMSELVES • BEAST (ANTI-CHRIST) AND FALSE PROPHET CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE • SATAN BOUND IN ABYSS (BOTTOMLESS PIT) FOR 1000 YEARS (A MILLENNIUM) • JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS - SHEEP and GOATS • MILLENNIUM - EARTHLY RULE OF JESUS AND SAINTS. EARTH IS RULED BY RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR 1,000 YEARS • AFTER 1000 YEARS, SATAN LOOSED FOR A SHORT TIME AND DECEIVES MANY WHO THEN REBEL • FINAL REBELLION PUT DOWN • SATAN CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE FOR ETERNITY • GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGEMENT - 2ND RESURRECTION • WORKS OF THE UNRIGHTEOUS LIVING AND DEAD JUDGED INADEQUATE • THOSE WHOSE NAMES ARE NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE ARE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE FOR ETERNITY • PRESENT HEAVEN AND EARTH DESTROYED (TRANSFORMED) BY FIRE AND A NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH ARE ESTABLISHED • JESUS AND BRIDE (CHURCH) AND OLD TESTAMENT SAINTS ABIDE IN THE NEW JERUSALEM) • THE SIFTED (PURGED AND PURIFIED NATIONS OF MAN LIVE ON THE NEW EARTH IN RIGHTEOUSNESS). Rev 21-22 • CHURCH UNDER GRACE = 30 AD - ????? • EPHESUS - DUTY W/O LOVE = (33 AD TO 100 AD) • SMYRNA - POOR, PERSECUTED BUT RICH = (100 AD TO 300 AD) = NO CRITICISM • PERGAMOS - COMPROMISE WITH THE WORLD = (300 AD TO 600 AD) • THYATIRA - THE GREAT COUNTERFEIT = (600 AD TO 1500 AD) • SARDIS - DEAD ORTHODOXY = (1500 AD TO 1750 AD) = NO COMMENDATION • PHILADELPHIA - REVIVAL AND EVANGELISM (1750 AD TO 1900 AD) = NO CRITICISM • LAODICEA - COMPROMISE AND APOSTASY - (1900 TO ???? ) = NO COMMENDATION ) • APOSTASY - THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS • ISRAEL CONQUERS IT’S “INNER RING” NEIGHBORING NATIONS - PSALM 83 * • RAPTURE [HARAZIO] = JUST PRIOR TO TRIBULATION PERIOD – Rev 4, 1 Th 4, 2 TH 2, 1 CO 15 • 1ST RESSURECTION • RESTRAINER (HOLY SPIRIT INDWELLING THE INDIVIDUAL BELIEVER: THE CHURCH) IS REMOVED • CHURCH IN HEAVEN • JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST - REWARDS • MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB • TEMPLE (OR TABERNACLE) WORSHIP IS RE-ESTABLISHED IN ISRAEL - SACRIFICES BEGIN * Dnl 9 • GOG / MAGOG INVASION OF ISRAEL BY “OUTER RING” NATIONS OCCURS – EZEK 38-39* • MAN OF SIN REVEALED / COMES TO POWER • COVENANT IS ENFORCED UPON ISRAEL • DAY OF THE LORD / DANIEL’S 70TH WEEK OF YEARS BEGINS Dnl 9 • Exact timing relative to the RAPTURE [ HARPAZIO] of the Church is not defined clearly. Rapture could occur before, during or following these events. • DANIEL’S 70TH WEEK OF YEARS - PERIOD OF WOE ON ISRAEL / EARTH • TIME OF JACOB'S TROUBLE = 3.5 YEARS / 42 MONTHS / 1,260 DAYS MATT 24-25, Rev 5>> • SEAL 1 - RIDER ON A WHITE HORSE - PEACE, ANTI-CHRIST REVEALED • SEAL 2 - RIDER ON A RED HORSE - 1ST WAR, THE RUSSIAN INVASION • SEAL 3 - RIDER ON A BLACK HORSE WITH BALANCES- FAMINE • SEAL 4 - RIDER ON A PALE HORSE - DEATH • SEAL 5 - MARTYRED SOULS AT THE ALTER - PERSECUTION • SEAL 6 - CATASTROPHIC CHANGES IN THE EARTH - DESTRUCTION • SEAL 7 - SILENCE - 144,000 JEWS SEALED • TRUMPET JUDGMENTS • 1ST TRUMPET - HAIL, FIRE AND BLOOD -- ALL GRASS AND 1/3 TREES BURNED, 1/3 EARTH ON FIRE • 2ND TRUMPET - FALLING METEOR - - 1/3 SHIPS DESTROYED, 1/3 FISH KILLED, 1/3 SEA FILLED W/ BLOOD • 3RD TRUMPET - FALLING STAR -- 1/3 OF WATER POISONED • 4TH TRUMPET - SUN, MOON, AND STARS -- 1/3 HEAVENS DARKENED, LIGHT DIMINISHED BY 1/3 • 5TH TRUMPET - DEMON LOCUSTS -- STING PEOPLE WITHOUT THE MARK OF GOD IN THEIR FOREHEADS (144,000) CAUSING 5 MONTHS OF TORMENT • 6TH TRUMPET - SATAN'S ARMY GATHERED (200 MILLION), KILL 1/3 OF MANKIND • ABOMINATION THAT CAUSES DESOLATION Ps 27:5 Zeph 2:2-3 John 14:1>> Isa 26:20 1 Cor 15:51-53 1 Thes 4:15-18 2 Thes 2 • Hos 6:1 Gone for two days…Hos 6.2 Back for 1 day • Ezek 4.1-8 Ezekiel’s 430 years (Lev 26.18, 21, 24, 28) • Dan 9:24-27 70 Sevens • Zech 12:10 Matt 23.39 Go away until Israel acknowledges their sin and their guilt and seek me / call on me • Zeph 3 Zech 13.1-14.21 Rev 19.3 • Isa 61.2-3 • Isa 63:1>> • Amos 9.7-15 Purged Israel from Edom • The Revelation ISRAEL A NATION AGAIN – May 14, 1948 Ezek 367-37 JERUSALEM RETAKEN – June 7, 1967 50%-80% of Earth’s population killed – Rev 5 >> Seals/Trumpets/Bowls Zech 13.8-9 2/3 Israel Purged / 1/3 tried as by Fire THE GREAT TRIBULATION 3.5 years, 42 months, 1260 days 3.5 years, 42 months, 1260 days GEN 3.15 REV 20.13-15 CHURCH - UNDER GRACE TIME OF JACOB’S TROUBLE THE WRATH OF GOD BEGINNING OF SORROWS Mat 24:24 1 Tim 4 2 Tim 2; 3 2 Co 11:13 2 Ptr 2 RAPTURE VIALS (BOWLS) OF GOD’s WRATH POURED OUT ON THE EARTH SEALS BROKEN TRUMPETS BLOWN ARMAGEDDON ??? 2000 A.D. COVENANT – PEACE ENFORCED MAN OF SIN COMES TO POWER WAR – INNER RING VICTORY - PS 83 • SIGNS – “Beginning of Sorrows” • All with increasing Frequency/Intensity • Wars / Rumors o Wars • Geological Weather Hydrological Turmoil • Fear • World travel / communication • Knowledge access – Technology • Financial instability/collapse – Inflation • World wide destructive capabilities • Diseases / Pestilence / Genetic mutations • Famine – Shortages of staples • Persecution • Astronomical Phenomena • Apostasy / Lovers of Self / Stiff necked WAR – OUTER RING - GOG/MAGOG EZ 38-39 Psalm 83 Ezekiel 36-38 Matthew 24-25 Mark 13 Luke 21 • TRENDING TOWARD THE END • Struggle for Jerusalem Zech 12; Luk 21 • Magog Invasion Eze 38, 39 • Rise of European Super State Dan 2, 7 • Rise of China Isa 49; Rev 19 • Toward Global Government Dan 11, Rev 13 • Ecumenical Religion Rev 13, 17, 18 • Global Pestilence Rev 6:8 • Decline of United States Hosea 4–14 • Weapons of Mass Destruction Mat 24:22 ABOMINATION THAT CAUSES DESOLATION Zech 11.17 Worthless shepherd Right Eye and Arm will be wounded Same locations on the body that the Mark of the Beast will be placed. (A memorial honoring him ???) 2ND Coming of Christ

  4. Dates and Times • Times and durations are prominent in Ezekiel’s writings. • 14 times in Ezekiel the words ‘year’, ‘month’ and ‘day’ appear together in a single verse to designate a specifc date. • Eze 1:1 Eze 29:17 • Eze1:2 Eze 30:20 • Eze 8:1 Eze 31:1 • Eze 20:1 Eze 32:1 • Eze 24:1 Eze 32:17 • Eze 26:1 Eze 33:21 • Eze 29:1 Eze 40:1 • It appears that God wants us to know the specific day in history that certain events occurred. • Historical dates in Scripture become markers • from which we can measure some future event. • God did not include any statement or any fact in his Word just to fill a page or provide us with a Bible Trivia question. It’s all there for a reason. • In Ezekiel 4:1-8, God gives Ezekiel specific instructons to lie on one side 390 days then turn and lie on the other side for 40 days: totalling 430 days – each of which represented a year of God’s punishment on Israel and Judah for their disobedience.

  5. Ezekiel 4:1-8 4:1 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: 2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about. 3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. 4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity. 5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judahforty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year. 7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it. 8 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.

  6. Who started this ??? • Ezekiel, a priest, was one of God’s prophets still living and serving back in Israel’s homeland at the time of the captivity. • Ezekiel lying on one side 390 days and then the other for another 40 days – each day symbolizing a year of God’s punishment on Israel and Judah for their iniquity – represented the length of God’s punishment for their failure to obey and honor God’s commands. • The length of the punishment was determined by the length of time Israel had ignored God’s commands • By the time Ezekiel was told to do this Israel and Judah were already conquered, desolated and largely in captivity. • The one who was enforcing God’s justice was Nebuchadnezzar – the Babylonian ruler who captured Israel and subsequently 20 years later destroyed Jerusalem. • It is these events that start the clock on Israel’s punishment…

  7. Ezekiel's 430 years - (Ezek 4:1-8). To represent the punishment for iniquity: Israel 390 days vs 5 To represent the punishment for iniquity: Judah 40 days vs 6 Hebrew peoples 430 days Each day represents a year 430 years vs 6 The Babylonian Captivity clearly accounts for 70 years2 Chr 36:21 Which leaves 360 years The remaining 360 years do not seem to fit any specific time of history. ??? So, where are the other 360 years ??? Let’s see what God had to say about the ‘iniquity’ of Israel…the sins that brought on God’s punishment.

  8. Land Sabbath • God said the Babylonian captivity was due in part to Israel’s refusal to honor His command to allow the land to have its Sabbath. • 2 Chron. 36:21 To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten [3x20+10=70] years. • The Land’s Sabbath had been omitted for 490 years (or 70 land sabbaths) thus the length of the captivity was to be 70 years. See: Jer 25:9-12 • But note, God indicated through Ezekiel that there were to be 430 years of punishment. • So, 70 land sabbaths are accounted for but we’re still missing the other 360 years … • Check Leviticus 26:21-45 for a clue • Lev 26:21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. • God goes on to describe the punishments and calamities that will fall on them. • Notice that among the things that bring punishment is disobeying God’s command to allow the land to lie fallow every seventh year – a land Sabbath. • Lev 26:34-35 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths. 35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it. • God closes the passage with a promise that if they accept their just punishment and turn to Him, He will; restore the land, restore them to Himself and to them to their land

  9. Did you see it ??? • There are several passages in Leviticus that indicate that if Israel doesn't obey the first time God will multiply her punishment by seven • Lev 26:18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. • Lev 26:21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. • Lev 26:24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins. • Lev 26:28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. • Now note: 360 years X 7 = 2,520 years360 • ??? Okay, still - So What ??? • Does 2,520 years fit any other time period or bring us to any other important date in Israel’s national history?

  10. We need to do some math Biblical Israel used a 360 day / year calendar We use a 365.25 day / year Julian calendar So to find a specific day in scripture on our calendar we need to do some math and make some adjustments that history has imposed on us over the years. For example: Our calendar and dating efforts need to accommodate leap years. For example: We need to adjust for the fact that there is no year ‘0’ For example: We need to adjust for other adjustments that have already been made to our calendar down through the years.

  11. Check your CalendarsThere have been several changesOne change was in 701 B.C. • In 701 B.C., all calendars appear to have been reorganized. • Numa Pompilius, the 2nd King of Borne, reorganized the original calendar of 360 days per year, by adding 5 days per year. • King Hezekiah, Numa's contemporary, reorganized his Jewish calendar by adding a month each Jewish leap year (on a cycle of 7 every 19 years.) • (An interesting possibility as to the cause of this calendar change is the orbital effects on the Earth of the Planet Mars which some believe has changed the way we account our day and year versus how the ancients measured theirs.) • The Biblical Calendar uses 360 day years – 30 day months - etc. • In Revelation, 42 months = 3 1/2 years = 1,260 days, etc. • Sir Robert Anderson: milestone work on this insight.

  12. What’s this about Leap Years • The Julian year is 11 minutes 10.46 seconds longer than the mean solar year. • Which is why every year which is evenly divisible by 4 is a leap year – it has an extra day – 29 Feb. • Even with this ‘adjustment’ the Julian calendar still contains 3 leap years too many every 4 centuries (400 years). • Which is why every century not evenly divisible by 400 is not a leap year even though it is evenly divisible by 4 • Dividing 2,483 by 4 = 621 leap years but with the errors that are built into the Julian calendar this includes 18 too many; (the 3 excess days every 4 centuries) • As of 1752 AD, an error of 11 days had accumulated. This was corrected by the ‘Gregorian reform’, (Pope Gregory XIII) which declared September 3 to be September 14, 1752, and reckoned 1700, 1800, and 1900 to be common years and 2000 as a leap year. • 18 - 11 = 7 more leap years to correct for: • Therefore we need to further adjust any date investigations that use our calendar by 621 - 7 = 614 days.

  13. The Gregorian reform of 1582 AD (or not): • 10 or 11 days were omitted from the calendar, (depending on when you made or accepted the change). • The Protestant countries and governments didn’t like the Pope messing with the calendar and not everyone made the same adjustment at the same time. • Some nations delayed adopting the Gregorian Reform to as late as 1752 AD when an 11 day adjustment was necessary. Everybody ended up using the same calendar eventually. • The rule for leap years was changed. • Using the Julian Calendar a year is a leap year if it is divisible by 4. • Using the Gregorian Calendar a year is a leap year if either • it is divisible by 4 but not by 100 or • it is divisible by 400. • In other words, a year which is divisible by 4 is a leap year unless it is divisible by 100 but not by 400 (in which case it is not a leap year). • New rules for the determination of the date of Easter were adopted. • The position of the extra day in a leap year was moved from the day before February 25th to the day following February 28th.

  14. Ezekiel's 430 years - (Ezek 4:1-8). The Bible always seems to deal in 360 day years. Using 360 day years, 2,520 years = 907,200 days Converting the 2,520 years 360 into 365.25 day years = 2,483 years 365 plus 9 months and 17 days:

  15. 1st Siege of Nebuchadnezzar: "Servitude of Nation" • Battle of Carchemesh: 606 B.C.; • Nebuchadnezzar vs Pharaoh Necco, • W bank of Euphrates; (Jer 46:1-6.) • Israel’s King Jehoikim fettered (2 Chr 36:5-8). • Jehoikim released as a vassal; • Temple plundered (for museum); • Hostages (Daniel et al.) taken (2 Chr 36:19-21) • (Daniel of Royal line ??). • This begins "Servitude of the Nation"; • It lasts 70 years to the day.

  16. 2nd Seige of Nebuchadnezzar • Jehoikim ignores Jeremiah's counsel, rebels. • 5 year battle; • Jehoikim dies; Jer 22:17-19. • King Jehiachin (Jeconiah) reigns in Israel until the siege ends Jer 22:24-30 • (Blood curse avoided by Christ's virgin birth.) • His son is captured; 10,000 captives; 1000 skilled artisans; etc. 2 Kgs 24:1-4. • His uncle, Zedekiah, installed as vassal king in Israel. • Jeremiah and Ezekiel prophesy; but false prophets again prevail. • Zedekiah’s ego trip leads to: 3rd Siege of Nebuchadnezzar

  17. 3rd Siege of Nebuchadnezzar • "Desolations of Jerusalem" 587 B.C.; • Also lasts 70 years; • While they overlap, they not the same 70 years as the "Servitude of the nation" • Contradictory prophecies: • Jer 32:5, 39:7; Ezek 12:13; 2 Kings 25:6,7. • God does not deal in approximations. • City and Temple destroyed 2 Kings 24:17-20; 25:1-21.

  18. The Servitude of the Nation If you start with the first siege of Nebuchadnezzar, which began the "Servitude of the Nation" in 606 B.C., the 70 years of of Babylonian servitude ended in 537 B.C. Using July 27 (Julian) of the year 537 B.C. as Israel’s release from servitude, then From: 537 y 7 m 27 d BC Duration: 2483 y 9 m 17 d (2,520 years360) Adjusting: 1 y (See note below - no "year 0") Brings us to: 1948 y 5 m 14 d = May 14, 1948 On May 14, 1948, David Ben Gurion, citing the book of Ezekiel as his authority, proclaimed Israel as the new Jewish homeland. The nation Israel was reestablished on the very completion of this 360 year360 x 7 interval from the end of the "Servitude of the Nation" under Babylon. (Ezek 4 and Lev 26) Note: No year “0”. Dating went from 1 BC to 1 AD

  19. Servitude of the nations

  20. The Desolations of Jerusalem If you start with the 3rd siege of Nebuchadnezzar, which began the "Desolations of Jerusalem" in 587 B.C., the seventy years of desolations ended in 518 B.C. Using August 16 (Julian) in the year 518 B.C. as the completion of the desolations of Jerusalem, then 360 years360 punishment x 7 converted to our Julian calendar then From: 518 y 8 m 20 d BC Duration: 2483 y 9 m 17 d (2,520 years360) Adjusting: 1 y (See note below - no "year 0") Brings us to: 1967 y 6 m 7 d = June 7, 1967. On June 7, 1967, as a result of the "Six Day War," the Old City of Jerusalem again came under Israeli control. The ancient punishment of Israel know as the “Desolations of Jerusalem” ended. The 2,520 years360 were accomplished. Note: No year “0”. Dating went from 1 BC to 1 AD

  21. Desolations of Jerusalem

  22. Remember Jesus' prediction: "...Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled." Luke 21:24 Jerusalem is again under Jewish control but the Gentiles still “trample” it. That will change very soon… The “times of the Gentiles” ends with Jesus Second Coming.

  23. Don't confuse the “Servitude of the Nation” with the "Desolations of Jerusalem”, the “times of the Gentiles” or the “fullness of the Gentiles” • The “Servitude of the Nation” was Israel’s punishment for abandoning God’s command and not following His instructions, including not honoring the Land Sabbath. It ended in 1948. • The "Desolations of Jerusalem" was Israel’s further punishment for not yielding to the “Servitude": Jer 27:6, 8, 11; 38:17-21. Cf. Jer 29:10; Dan 9:2. It ended in 1967. • Both the "Servitude of the Nation" and the "Desolations of Jerusalem" were predicted to last 70 years360. Two different 70 year periods staggered by 20 years. • 70 years 360 = 25,200 days = 69 years 365 less 2 days. • The 70 years were completed but due to Israel not obeying the first time the remaining 360 years were multiplied by 7 to 2,520 years360 days each • Nebuchadnezzar taking Judea captive began the period known as the "times of the Gentiles." It ends with Jesus “Second Coming” to rule and reign on the earth • Cf. Luk 21:24. Jer 25:9; Nebuchadnezzar is "my servant"! Dan 2:21. • No king from the line of David has ruled over Israel since the Babylonian captivity. • The next Jewish King to rule is Jesus Christ our Lord • The “fullness of the Gentiles” is what we commonly call the “Church Age” which ends with the ‘Rapture’ and again focuses attention on Israel as God’s people and quickly begins the 70th 7 of Daniel 9:24-27 during which Israel is purged and its tasks completed as God deals with and works through them.

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